Oprah Winfrey to join Ava DuVernay's live-action Disney film, 'A Wrinkle in Time'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Oprah Winfrey has proven time and time again that she can hold her own on the movie screen. This includes her small, but important role in Ava DuVernay’s debut film, Selma. Now, it seems that the legendary talk show host is joining a new project from the same director with, A Wrinkle in Time.

            According to Collider, Winfrey is set to play Mrs. Which in the live-action Disney film written by the writer/director behind Frozen. The original story is a classic children’s science fiction book that follows a group of children who travel through a wormhole to find their missing father who is a scientist for the government.

            This is an incredibly intriguing project and one that we should’ve seen coming with the current wave of Disney live-action remakes. With DuVernay behind the project though, it’s hard not to be excited. Selma was one of my favorite films in 2014 and DuVernay was a huge snub for a nomination for Best Director. Winfrey had a harrowing role within the film about Martin Luther King and his Civil Rights march in Selma, Alabama, but her best work was probably in the movie, Lee Daniels’ The Butler in which she played the depressed wife of a White House servant, played by Oscar winner, Forest Whitaker. Winfrey will next be seen in Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? Also, she’s recently been cast in the HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks with Rose Byrne.